engines you should know

In the 1980s, General Motors was hurting badly. It was the Roger Smith era, during which the company’s U.S. market…

For reasons that will become clear at a later date, I have spent a decent amount of time today looking at the…

This car crossed my Instagram feed the other day and I didn’t think much of it. Oh, cool, I thought, another 2JZ…

In 1987, BMW announced to the world that it was officially not screwing around anymore when it put a 5.0-liter V12…

BMW is a V8-heavy company today, with twin-turbo versions filling up just about every big-power model it has on…

The Bugatti Chiron is an absolute engineering marvel, and its W16 is as well, with a twin-to-quad turbo setup that…

In a fit of boundless national optimism, Peugeot and Renault (and a few years later Volvo) teamed up to make a new…

The Ford Flathead V8 was the first mass-market V8 and the starting point for uniquely American performance. What’s…

In 1991, little Mazda stood at the top of the world. It won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with its banshee Mazda 787B…

Toyota called it its “finest engine,” ambitious, technologically advanced and, from a modern perspective, impossibly…

The quad-turbo W16 in use in current Bugattis is a real engineering marvel, made of two banks of narrow-angle VR8…

In the 1980s, Toyota began its most audacious push into the high-end side of the car world, racing V8 prototypes at…

Back in the 1970s, Nissan was sort of stuck in a rut. The gas crises had ballooned the profits and export sales of…

No diesel engine on earth is as legendary as a 12-valve Cummins. Not only is the inline-six known for its awesome…

The Ford 300 cubic inch straight-six is a staple of American truck culture, having literally helped build this…

“Two-jay-zee engine, no shit... This will decimate all,” Jesse said in the original Fast and Furious movie after…

Today we start a series called “Engines You Should Know” in an effort to enlighten the world about the best, worst…